Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has reached a decision to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The action was brought about by six non-binary individuals born in Puerto Rico who filed a lawsuit arguing that the Commonwealth’s current Birth Certificate Policy violates the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The court ruled that the policy is unconstitutional and that the right to equal protection under the law must be upheld for nonbinary individuals.
The court’s decision allows people who identify as nonbinary or gender-nonconforming to select